"What we're doing when we talk about fully remotely operated forklifts is Zoom for the physical world," says Phantom Auto co-founder Elliott Katz. "So for the first time, warehouse workers who haven't had that same privilege will now similarly be able to work from a remote ...
materials science, medicine, and other fields. For all the power of the biomimetics paradigm, and the biliant people who practice it, bio-inspiration has led to surprisingly few mass-produced products and arguably only one household word- Velcro,...
Along with the development of society, more and more problems are brought to our attention, one of the most serious issue is the gray population. Nevertheless, the significance of elderly people in society cannot be overstated. As...
The Silk Road, which derives its name from the trade of silk produced by the domestic silkworm Bombyx mori, was an important episode in the development and interaction of human civilizations. However, the detailed history behind silkworm domestication re
Spider silks show unique combinations of strength, toughness, extensibility, and energy absorption. To date, it has been difficult to obtain spider silk-like mechanical properties using non-protein approaches. Here, we report on an artificial spider silk produced by the water-evaporation-induced self...
First, the fiber content of your piece of clothing is most important. As a general rule, protein or animal fibers (wool, silk, etc.) are easiest to dye. Plant fibers (cotton, linen or bamboo) can also be dyed if they have been pretreated with a mordant.Synthetic fibers (polyester, acr...
spiders to make it in a recombinant way, meaning not in spiders, but in other organisms, like bacteria or plants. probably the best known example of a recombinant protein is insulin. this has helped millions of people across the last four decades since the first insulin was produced in ...
This part is great fun! The silk thread is now dyed in a multitude of glorious colours. Traditionally, dyes come from fruit or indigo plants, but in the modern silk industry, many dyes are synthetic, allowing for a greater variety of colours to be produced. ...
is a high-value product to this day. Recently silkworms have been used as a platform for synthetic biology and nanotechnology to generate products that harness the properties of silk fibre. It has been used to generate high-value protein therapeutics, spider silk, antimicrobial bandages, drug ...
‘The infantry, as well as the cavalry, are lightly and appropriately dressed. The former have blue and also red jackets of English cloth; the latter have blue jackets trimmed with cotton lace: the officers have gold or silver lace, and wear red silk sashes, such as are used in the ...